y goal is just at this moment bill is
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doing better we had we had a rocky week
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last week this week we solve some issues
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for him and he’s doing so much better
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and my goal is to keep him at home
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yes so that so you you were talking a
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little bit before about the differences
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between assisted living nursing homes
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and in-home care so do you want to yeah
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that’s right
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bill haven’t been so developed in his
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life for him his brain is so different
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from many and to be able to get the
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individualized attention is really
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magnificent because in a group this way
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we can customize we can mix and match
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the right people the right activities
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and certainly I’m very active and find
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of course it’s good for you because I
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mean certainly every time I’ve been here
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Bill is a charming lovely man I mean
s and it’s a joy to see him thriving
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as well and to be in the home
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environment where most people do do best
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so it’s it’s wonderful and it’s it’s
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it’s so much better than having to go to
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a distant place where you know you have
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to make a special effort to see your
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loved one well even it’s not appropriate
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for bill at all it’s not appropriate for
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dementia because there’s no one-on-one
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there’s no assure they people say we’ll
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be looking out for we did try it but
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they don’t really look out for him he’s
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on his own which is certainly not
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appropriate or expected people with
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dementia can really shut themselves off
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that way because if they’re not getting
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the stimulus they they don’t respond and
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they can kind of make a clam shell up as
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it were and sort of disappear into
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themselves which ultimately doesn’t help
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quality of life and you can
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if we don’t have language those who are
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still with good function as bill he
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knows when he doesn’t know so if you
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can’t explain something it his favorite
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expression is we don’t need to talk
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about that now we’ll talk about it later
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so we always package things for later
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and that means literally that he can’t
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explain yes well that’s that’s one of
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the things isn’t it about to mention
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that it doesn’t mean that their
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intelligence is disappeared by any means
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it just means that the short-term memory
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is getting more and more difficult and
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then eventually as some of the the lack
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of the short-term memory does feed into
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it but it it takes a very long time
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before the they’ve still got that
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intelligence to them and they still got
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that next still have that love of life
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as well you know we he does so many
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things I’m so grateful we have that
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opportunity because it keeps them really
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in the moment and in life for sure thank
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you